diff -r 000000000000 -r 40c8f766c9b8 src/cm/utils/spannifier.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/cm/utils/spannifier.py	Mon Nov 23 15:14:29 2009 +0100
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+import uuid
+import xml.dom.minidom
+import re
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Comment
+ 
+
+def get_text_nodes(soup):
+    return soup(text=lambda text:not isinstance(text, Comment))
+
+def is_real_text_node(textNode):
+    return not textNode.findParent('style') 
+
+def get_the_soup(input):
+    return BeautifulSoup(input, convertEntities=["xml", "html"])
+                     
+def spannify(input):
+    """ 
+    wrap textNodes in spans 
+    """
+    
+    input = re.sub("\s*$","",input)
+        
+    soup = get_the_soup(input)
+    
+    textNodes = get_text_nodes(soup)
+    textNodes_content = []
+    
+    span_starts = {}
+    for i in xrange(len(textNodes)):
+        textNode = textNodes[i]
+        if is_real_text_node(textNode) :
+            textNode.replaceWith('<span id="sv_' + str(i) + '" class="c-s"><span id="sv-' + str(i) + '" class="c-count-0 c-c">' + textNode.string + '</span></span>')
+            span_starts[i] = len(''.join(textNodes_content))
+            textNodes_content.append(textNode.string)
+    output = unicode(soup)
+         
+    textualized = ''.join(textNodes_content)
+    return output, textualized, span_starts